December 13, 2017 at 12:53 pm · Filed under Hanukkah
When you think of Hanukkah, do you think of crossing the barrier between the corporeal and spiritual worlds? When you think of the war between the Maccabees and the Greeks, do you think of an inner war within the person, between the desire to love and bestow, and the egoistic desire for personal benefit? When you think of the miracle of Hanukkah, do you think of us being granted an intention to bestow upon our egoistic desire to enjoy? If you do, then you’re thinking in terms of the deeper explanations of the meaning of Hanukkah’s customs and concepts that the wisdom of Kabbalah provides. As a method to discover the higher reality of love, bestowal and positive connection while we’re alive in this world, Kabbalah describes all phenomena in Kabbalistic texts, including all of the Jewish holidays, in terms of a person’s spiritual development. In this infographic, you can get a taste of a few of the deeper meanings behind common Hanukkah customs and concepts, to start perceiving them as inner phenomena and processes each person can encounter from now onward on their spiritual progress to discover the higher reality.
Dr. Michael Laitman discusses what is so unique about Jewish holidays in 2014 as opposed to Jewish holidays in other years with Like a Bundle of Reeds executive editor, Chaim Ratz.
Like a Bundle of Reeds is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics:
What is the spiritual root of Hannukah? Why do we light candles, and who were the Maccabim, anyway?
Hannukah candles symbolize the Light of Mercy one attains when one has reached the spiritual world. The light gradually increases during the holiday, hence the lighting of an extra candle each day.
The festivities we celebrate stem from a complex relationship between varying situations in our soul.
The Greeks are the desires that oppose the person’s spiritual development. They tell the person that it is unreasonable to go beyond the law of nature, to commune with the upper world. They claim it has no rationality. The Greeks weaken Israel’s strength using logical arguments that originate in one’s accumulating experience in this world.
The Israel in the person must recruit the struggle of the power of faith against the Greeks’ arguments. Israel tell the Greeks that it is correct from a logical point of view, but Israel believes that it is possible to go beyond the barriers of reason, to the world of the causes. The stronger the Greeks grow, the more powerful Israel’s faith becomes. This war goes on and on until it takes a miracle for Israel to win. But then the miracle occurs and a beautiful, enchanted world appears, far more wonderful than one can imagine. Then one realizes just how true Israel’s road had been and why it is good to stick by it from now on.
The victory over the Greeks is the foundation of any person’s path in the spiritual realm. It allows one to perform corrections that will lead to the final frontier, that of Purim, the fight in which one succeeds in attaining the endless, eternal bounty that the Creator has prepared for all.
The Spiritual Meaning of the Jewish Holidays is an app providing information about the spiritual meaning and today’s relevance of the Jewish holidays.
It includes episodes from the online video talk show Jtimes with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman giving insights into topics of prime relevance today, with emphasis on the Jewish people, as well as the spiritual meaning and today’s relevance of the Jewish holidays.
It also contains articles on the spiritual meaning of Jewish holidays and the latest blog posts related to the Jewish holidays by Dr. Laitman.
The spiritual meaning of Jewish holidays explained in this app:
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